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Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Conservatives' Reputation For Business Acumen Is A Fake

"The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country," said Ted Kennedy, and nothing has changed since then - except the Cons have driven the middle class deeper and deeper into poverty, just like they planned.They lost their reputation for financial expertise and balancing the budget under Dubya, they lost their reputation for honesty under Nixon, and they lost their mantle of caring for the middle class under Reagan.Yet they push relentlessly forward as the Low Information Voter and voting apathy in general keeps them in power, and here's a little fairy tale that proves the point...

To Conservatives, money is God and corruption is their religion...The way that the Cons go to the Bible for inspiration isn't so inspiring, though...

...especially when it comes to the poor.

If the voters REALLY paid attention, they would find out that Conservatism and the economy are a horrific mix...

Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944)"Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats' health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats' rank capitulation to corporate interests - no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma."But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP..."Finally, we see that their pillaging and robbing of the middle class and poor was their strategy along. Your grandfather's GOP was the same as today's, they just don't lie as much about it these days...

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As the man said, just "follow the money." Conservatism is all about serving the interests of the richest in our society, and the greediest among those billionaires HATE missing out on pirating the money of the middle class.The Founding Fathers had a few things to say about greed, riches, and class warfare, and the rape of our income and savings is inherently anti-American."Anti-American?" Isn't that a hoot, coming from the people who claim that they're patriotic Americans.In the article above, "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult," we find this interesting quote -- a quote that unmasks the GOP and the Cons for what they really are"

"A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress's generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner."